...the sinister ends of Princes, the ambition and avarice of Prelates, and the fatal corruption of the times, so decayed, impaired, and fallen from its native...these times to restore it to its primitive integrity." And yet, as there were not only many reformers, but likewise many species of reformation, " every country...

...the martyrs confirmed ; but by the sinister ends of princes, the ambition and avarice of prelates, and the fatal corruption of times, so decayed, impaired,...condition of the person by whom so good a work was set on foot, which in our adversaries begets contempt and scorn, fills me with wonder, and is the very same...

...the martyrs confirmed ; but by the sinister ends of princes, the ambition and avarice of prelates, and the fatal corruption of times, so decayed, impaired,...hands of these times to restore it to its primitive integ* That is, Lutheran, Calvinist, Zuinglian, &c. rity. Now the accidental occasion whereupon, the...

...the martyrs confirmed ; but by the sinister ends of princes, the ambition and avarice of prelates, and the fatal corruption of times, so decayed, impaired,...hands of these times to restore it to its primitive integ* That is, Lutheran, Calvinist, Zuinglian, &c. rity. Now the accidental occasion whereupon, the...

...its doctrines and rules of faith, — to be particular, I am of that reformed new-cast i 6 -. f • religion, wherein I dislike nothing but the name ;...whom, so good a work was set on foot,6 which in our adver3 This verse is inserted from the MS. 5 .... prelates,] Both the surreptiL.—Ed. tious editions,...

...the martyrs confirmed ; but, by the sinister ends of princes, the ambition and avarice of prelates,* and the fatal corruption of times, so decayed, impaired,...whom, so good a work was set on foot,6 which in our adver3 This verse is inserted from the MS. 5 .... prelates,"] Both the surrcptiL.—Ed. tious editions,...

...divisions it occasioned, sometimes playing it off against the pope, sometimes against France, and cot and the fatal corruption of times, so decayed, impaired,...its primitive integrity. Now the accidental occasion wherupon, the slender means whereby, the low and abject condition of the person by whom so good a work...

...decayed, impaired, and fallen from its native beauty, that it required the careful and charitable hand of these times to restore it to its primitive integrity....condition of the person by whom so good a work was set on foot, which in our adversaries beget contempt and scorn, fills me with wonder, and is the very same...

...decayed, impaired, and fallen from its native beauty, that it required the careful and charitable hand of these times to restore it to its primitive integrity....condition of the person by whom so good a work was set on foot, which in our adversaries beget contempt and scorn, fills me with wonder, and is the very same...

...the martyrs confirmed ; but by the sinister ends of princes, the ambition and avarice of prelates, and the fatal corruption of times, so decayed, impaired,...beauty, that it required the careful and charitable hand of these times to restore it to its primitive integrity. Now the accidental occasion whereupon,...